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Christopher Owen Ayres (born May 16, 1965, in Richmond, Virginia) is an American voice actor, ADR Director, and Script Writer at Seraphim Digital and Sentai Filmworks for English versions of Japanese anime series. He has also been a voice actor for Funimation, OkraTron 5000 and New Generation Pictures. He got his start voice acting at ADV Films on Kino's Journey and is known for Mock Combat for Cosplay panels at anime conventions.

He is known for voicing Frieza in the FUNimation dub of the Dragon Ball Z franchise.

Ayres won the 2012 Staff Choice Award for Best Male Vocal Performance in an Anime Title in a Supporting Role as Frieza in "Dragon Ball Z Kai" at 1st Annual BTVA Voice Acting Awards.

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Chris is the older brother of Greg Ayres. Unlike Greg though, Chris has had more experience in terms of directing and writing and has even directed theater productions. Occasionally, his surname is listed as Ayers instead of Ayres; however this spelling is incorrect as his legal name is "Christopher Ayres".

He voices Frieza in Dragon Ball Z Kai, and video games from the Dragon Ball franchise from 2010-onwards. He also voiced Frieza in the nineteenth Dragon Ball film, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’. He returns as Frieza in the Dragon Ball Superdub. In 2017, Ayres revealed that he was going through ill health and that his understudy Daman Mills will voice Frieza for upcoming works on the condition should he be too ill to perform or something worse occur.

He is also known for voicing Garuga in Yu Yu Hakusho: The Movie, and voicing Prince Soma in the Black Butler dub and has done voices in several Japanese anime films.